[occi-wg] Special Session about OCCI at Closer 2016

Tue Mar 22 11:19:50 EDT 2016

Hi Alan,

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Sill, Alan <alan.sill at ttu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Augusto,
>
> Thanks for this information. A couple of points and observations are below.
>
>    1) When I suggested a special session for an OCCI WG meeting, it was with
> the idea in mind that of course OGF sessions that result in contributions to
> documents need to be run according to OGF IP rules, with sign-in sheets and
> acknowledgement forms etc. in order to protect the integrity of the IP
> process that produces these documents. Hence these are usually extra,
> separate sessions that are not mixed with conference sessions.
>
>   2) Thijs has separately clarified that the OCCI 1.2 document set is
> considered complete, and I believe that it is in front of the OGF GFSG now
> for final review. Jens can clarify its exact status. If there are any
> changes that are needed to this document set before publication, we need to
> know right away.

AFAIK, there are no changes to existing documents and the review
process can continue. If Jens could provide a brief update on the
status of the final review, that would be great.

> My suggestion for an implementation community group would be to gather
> people together specifically around the idea of promoting progress on OCCI
> 1.2 implementations as rapidly as possible to take advantage of the recent
> document work. Of course, people are welcome to present conference papers
> and talks as they like, but I was hoping to encourage a more coordinated
> effort.
>
> Please let us know if you need OGF sign-in sheets for a document-oriented
> meeting for the items proposed by Boris, and if it will be possible to
> arrange a special session to focus on this (or on the community
> implementation group) beyond the papers at the conference itself.
>
> Alan

Boris

>
> On Mar 22, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto at di.unipi.it>
> wrote:
>
> The tentative agenda of the extended special session follows. The time slots
> reserved to the four Closer presentations have been reduced to 25 minutes,
> and thus we have time for two slots of 20 minutes each for occi 1.2 review
> and implementations, and one 5 minutes slot for 2.0 perspectives. At the
> end, we have time for an open discussion before closing.
>
> 16:00 - Introduction of the special session - Augusto
> 16:05 - #1 Evolution of The Open Cloud Computing Interface, by Boris Parak
> et al.
>
> 16:30 - #2 Easing Scientific Computing and Federated Management in the Cloud
> with OCCI, by Zdenek Šustr et al.
>
> 16:55 - #3 SLAaaS: an OCCI compliant framework for cloud SLA provisioning
> and violation detection, by G. Katsaros et al.
>
> 17:20 - #4 Beyond Nagios - Design of a cloud monitoring system, by Augusto
> Ciuffoletti
> 17:45 - ogf#1 review of OCCI 1.2 - summary, status of documents, feedback
> (Boris?) (10' brief + 10' discussion)
> 18:05 - ogf#2 Implementations of OCCI 1.2: short & long term plans,
> foresee-able challenges, project road-maps, OCCIware project (Jean?) (10'
> brief +10' discussion)
> 18:25 - ogf#3 Perspective on OCCI 2.0: XML rendering, filtering, transport,
> attribute types refinement (Augusto?) (5' brief)
> 18:30 - Open discussion
> 19:00 - Extended special session close
>
> The three OGF talks (together with the four paper presentations) should
> improve the outreach of OCCI.
> The final open discussion should help to finalize the submitted documents.
>
> Many items among those suggested by Jean and Boris are not scheduled. The
> inventory:
> -) discussion on changes which didn't get into OCCI 1.2
> -) Extending OCCI's query interface -- in-depth discussion on query
> interface extensions, multi-location set-ups, advertising endpoints,
> etc.
> -) Towards OCCI 2.0 -- preliminary discussions, roadmap
> -) Filtering in OCCI -- this discussion is long overdue :-)
> -) Transport protocol extensions -- perhaps AMQP, any other ideas?
> -) Rendering extensions -- for the next release, we should finally
> get XML into the standard
> -) OpenAPI/Swagger
>
> Some of them are challenging and urgent, but I think that now we should
> really focus on closing the 1.2 documents, and consider them as building
> blocks.
>
> Augusto
>
> 2016-03-19 8:41 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto at di.unipi.it>:
>>
>> The Closer secretariat confirms the availability of the same room used for
>> the special session until 19:00, so that we have one additional hour for an
>> OGF-labelled session. This way we facilitate the attendance of people
>> interested though not directly involved in OCCI. I'd concentrate in this
>> time slot the discussions and briefs that are not too technical, and that
>> give a perspective of OCCI activity. We can arrange a further (or even
>> preliminary) meeting to discuss more technical issues: I guess we have
>> plenty of places where to meet, and in case I'll ask for further
>> availability to Closer.
>>
>> As for financial issues, the secretariat pointed out that the participants
>> need to register to the main conference. No words about a financial
>> participation of OGF. I asked if this was appropriate, but the reply was
>> that the participants need to register, nothing else. So, if OGF wants to
>> help the participants...
>>
>> In the next week we will try to finalize the agenda using the info
>> provided by Jean, Boris, and by all those that have not yet replied. I'd
>> like to have a word about that from Andy and Thijs.
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-03-18 9:03 GMT+01:00 Jean Parpaillon <jean.parpaillon at free.fr>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'll be there.
>>> Some topics I can present something about below.
>>>
>>> Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 20:51 +0100, Boris Parak a écrit :
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Augusto Ciuffoletti
>>> <augusto at di.unipi.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> We have a two-hours session scheduled during the conference: it is our
>>> session, and we can organize it in the way that better fits our needs,
>>> provided that the four scheduled talks take place. For instance, if we
>>> reduce the length of the presentations to 20 minutes (instead of 30), 40
>>> minutes are left for discussion, briefing or whatever. Also, I am rather
>>> confident that Closer would be happy to allow the utilization of the same
>>> room for an extended time slot (thought I'd need to check and ask for
>>> this).
>>>
>>> So there is really the opportunity to capitalize on this Special Session:
>>> we
>>> just need a widely agreed definition and purpose for the additional
>>> activity
>>> that we want to carry out (agenda). It would be great if this could help
>>> the
>>> delivery of the pending documents (OCCI 1.2 and monitoring).
>>>
>>> A formal announcement, according with Jean's suggestion, should be based
>>> on
>>> a work plan: is there any plan of this sort?
>>>
>>> We don't have anything specific yet, but I have a few suggestions. If
>>> we can agree on some of them or perhaps add new ones, we should have
>>> enough for an OCCI WG meeting.
>>>
>>> 1.) Review of OCCI 1.2 -- summary, late feedback, status of documents,
>>> discussion on changes which didn't get into OCCI 1.2
>>> 2.) Implementations of OCCI 1.2 -- short & long term plans, forseeable
>>> challenges, project roadmaps
>>>
>>>
>>> 1-2 slides on OCCIware current status and roadmap.
>>>
>>> 3.) Extending OCCI's query interface -- in-depth discussion on query
>>> interface extensions, multi-location set-ups, advertising endpoints,
>>> etc.
>>> 4.) Towards OCCI 2.0 -- plans for the future, preliminary discussions,
>>> roadmap
>>>
>>>
>>> Some inputs on that:
>>> * attributes types refinment
>>> * possible links with OpenAPI / Swagger ?
>>>
>>> 5.) Filtering in OCCI -- this discussion is long overdue :-)
>>> 6.) Transport protocol extensions -- perhaps AMQP, any other ideas?
>>> 7.) Rendering extensions -- for the next release, we should finally
>>> get XML into the standard
>>>
>>>
>>> I've initiated that, I can present status, evolutions, ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jean
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think? Any other ideas? Something to remove/add?
>>>
>>>
>>> Can we envision a further
>>> meeting to be formally announced during the Session?
>>>
>>>
>>> Augusto
>>>
>>> Boris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-03-17 13:39 GMT+01:00 Sill, Alan <alan.sill at ttu.edu>:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a need for the OCCI-WG or its members and participants (or a
>>> community group focused on OCCI implementations) to meet at CLOSER 2016?
>>> OGF
>>> could pay for meeting rooms and.or offer a small co-sponsorship of the
>>> conference to cover the reasonable costs of such a meeting if so.
>>>
>>> We don’t have a lot of money for such things and try to spend it
>>> carefully, but meetings of OGF groups that are well attended at topical
>>> conference is one way that we try to use it and is possible under special
>>> circumstances.
>>>
>>> Given the pending release of OCCI 1.2, I think that a meeting on OCCI 1.2
>>> implementations would be well in scope and is something that we can
>>> consider.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2016, at 4:33 AM, Jean Parpaillon <jean.parpaillon at free.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> Thank you Augusto for organizing this session.
>>> I would propose an official OCCI discussion to be announced during this
>>> session. I have no doubt such discussion will appear informally during
>>> the
>>> conference but for funding/administrative purpose, it would greatly help
>>> to
>>> have it officially announced, and maybe let some people join who could
>>> not
>>> otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jean
>>>
>>>
>>> Le jeudi 17 mars 2016 à 10:15 +0100, Augusto Ciuffoletti a écrit :
>>>
>>> Dear members of the occi-wg maillist,
>>>
>>> this is to finalize the details about the Special Session about OCCI at
>>> CLOSER 2016, to be held in Rome (Italy), 23-25 April. The Program
>>> Committee
>>> selected 4 papers out of 6 that were submitted, and the authors will
>>> present
>>> their work on the second day of the Conference. The exact time of the
>>> presentations is still to be finalized.
>>>
>>> The selected papers are the following:
>>>
>>> Evolution of The Open Cloud Computing Interface, by Boris Parak et al.
>>>
>>> Easing Scientific Computing and Federated Management in the Cloud with
>>> OCCI, by Zdenek Šustr et al.
>>>
>>> SLAaaS: an OCCI compliant framework for cloud SLA provisioning and
>>> violation detection, by G. Katsaros et al.
>>>
>>> Beyond Nagios - Design of a cloud monitoring system (Augusto Ciuffoletti)
>>>
>>> It is my hope that this event will extend the reach of the OCCI
>>> principles
>>> to new people, especially researchers. Those of you that are going to
>>> participate to CLOSER are warmly invited to participate to the event to
>>> get
>>> in touch and reinforce a network.
>>>
>>> Augusto Ciuffoletti
>>>
>>>
>>> 2016-01-18 11:49 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto at di.unipi.it>:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> this is a reminder about the special session entitled "Experiences with
>>> OCCI" that we want to schedule during Closer 2016 (Rome, April 23-25
>>> 2016).
>>> The deadline for paper submission expires on February 10. If you want to
>>> report and discuss about an adoption, or propose a new application, you
>>> still have more than three weeks to put it on paper and send to us.
>>>
>>> All relevant infos are now on Closer site in a dedicated page, or in our
>>> flier.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Augusto
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-12-10 16:45 GMT+01:00 Augusto Ciuffoletti <augusto at di.unipi.it>:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> there will be a special session dedicated to OCCI during the "Closer
>>> 2016"
>>> conference that will take place in Rome, near to the end of April. The
>>> session is intended to gather results and proposals about the Open Cloud
>>> Computing Interface: adoption stories are specifically appreciated, but
>>> also
>>> proposals for extensions, new applications and tools.
>>>
>>> The deadline for submission is on February, and you find a flyer with the
>>> schedule and further info at http://tinyurl.com/clocci16.
>>>
>>> Augusto
>>>
>>> --
>>> Augusto Ciuffoletti
>>> Dipartimento di Informatica
>>> Università di Pisa
>>> 56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Università di Pisa
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Augusto Ciuffoletti
>> Dipartimento di Informatica
>> Università di Pisa
>> 56100 - Pisa (Italy)
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>
>
> --
> Augusto Ciuffoletti
> Dipartimento di Informatica
> Università di Pisa
> 56100 - Pisa (Italy)
>
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